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TIL that some people have the CCR5 gene and that makes them immune to contract HIV.

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lYMa TIL there are more tigers in Texas than in their native land of India
1a9xP TIL the music used in the anti privacy ad "you wouldn't steal a car" was pirated for the ad
PYvvV TIL that although pop cultural references to the 1954 TV show Lassie often includes Timmy falling down a well, Timmy never did fall down a well in the actual show.
loPrB TIL Abraham Lincoln authorized the creation of the Secret Service whose original purpose was to investigate counterfeit money which accounted for almost half of all US currency. He was shot the same day.
p8kQA TIL In Greek Mythology, when Cronus castrated (his father) Uranus, from Uranus' blood which splattered onto the earth, sprang the Furies, the Giants, and the Meliae. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the sea, around which "a white foam spread" and "grew" into the goddess Aphrodite.